Wellness and Praying

A huge part of accessing the abundant Blessings and Gifts of the Lord, is what is in our heart and what we speak.  We are told time again, that what and how we speak directly control the atmosphere around us and in our bodies.  There are many verses about the tongue/words we speak and the heart/inner man ( our spirit).  It is so huge!  Take a moment to read these verses slowly and really ponder them!

Proverbs 15:4

A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.

Proverbs 18:21

Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

Proverbs 17:22

A merry heart doeth good like/same as a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

So how do we tell, what the condition of our heart is? Listen to your speech, are you speaking life/health or death/sickness? When your with your friends or in casual mode, what are you saying, your words are a direct method of assessing your heart condition and even what you think about regularly. This directly influences the wellness of your body.  A renewed mind has as Paul states Colossians 3:2

Amplified Bible (AMP)

² And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.

Psalm 1:2

But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Joshua 1:8

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Psalm 77:12

I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

Meditate means to ponder, now since we are New Covenant it is the Law of Love, which we should ponder on. The Love of God to us in Jesus.

I always ask Holy Spirit to guide my thoughts and my speech, that it is acceptable to The Lord.  What we think about is where our mind will lead us.  Also, note we are tempted with what we think.  If we set our mind on the things above then the devil doesn’t have anything to tempt us with. This is why Paul states that there is another law warring in his body, the law of sin and death, which takes advantage of the Law. Because if we think about not sinning, then we will sin, cause that’s what we’re thinking about! Same thing with sickness if we’re constantly thinking about our physical condition, then it will get worse!  So ponder healing scriptures, then our body will go that way.  It also sets our heart to be assured of healing, it decreases unbelief. 

All of this ties into what we hear, see, think; commercials are death sentences, we hear them all the time, what we hear constantly becomes a heart belief. What is in most if not all commercials? Masked fear! Take this test such a percentage of men develop blah, blah, blah. Take this medicine, then is the long list of warnings.  Most television shows are just as bad. We must guard our hearts with all diligence, in other words, we must pay attention to what is going into our ears and what our eyes see. All of this is renewing our minds to align with God’s Will. It is His Will for all to be healthy! These things are steps to aligning ourselves to His Thoughts, and then we will be closer to being healthy. Think about this scripture “a double minded man shall expect to receive nothing”. So if our thoughts are on our symptoms, yet we’re praying for a healing……..what is that? Being double-minded.  You might ask or say look mister, I’m in severe pain, how can I not think about it? Good question here’s how not to be double-minded:: “The fact is I am in severe pain, but the truth is by HIS Wounds/Stripes I am healed.”  Now, healing is a gift and our healing isn’t based on our actions, what this does is sink down into the heart and decreases unbelief. You’re changing your heart beliefs, not doing it to earn a healing……big, huge difference. It is not, reciting healing scriptures 100 times everyday for a month, then because of my action, I’ll be healed. It is redefining your heart beliefs and coming into alignment with God’s Will! Also, it is Jesus that changes us, so always ask Holy Spirit to change you, He will. All this sounds like a lot of effort, but when His Holy Spirit is involved and we yield ourselves to Him and ask Him to renew our mind, it does happen effortlessly! Then we just fall more in Love with Him! It all comes down to Trusting Jesus, first for healing, then for continuous health.

Let’s talk a bit about praying for healing, whether for yourself or someone else. Praying for healing isn’t begging God to heal you “O God please heal me”, “please God take this cancer away”, “Please God heal my aunt”.  These are prayers that are illegitimate and full of unbelief. Why? Because Jesus earned healing for us and He’s already answered the question if it’s His Will for you to be healed. The answer is yes it is.  Luke 5:12-13, I’ve covered this before, so I won’t go into detail. That along with Mark 16:17-18 and many more scripture.

Now moving along, we’ve been given the authority and power by Jesus and His Holy Spirit to heal, so we don’t have to ask.  We use our authority In Christ to command and expect healing.  Matthew 16:19

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.”

We speak from heaven to earth. Cancer is unlawful in heaven, therefore I am declaring it unlawful on earth. So, I’m binding the evil and then loosing health, healing and Blessings. In Christ we have both earthly and spiritual authority. All spiritual authority was removed from satan, but he uses man’s earthly authority to proceed with his evils.  He and all demons have to work through mankind.  Thereby using our spiritual authority in Christ, (outloud) we are legally tossing his work to the wind.  This is why the accuser/deciever has most of the world convinced that 1) God “allows it” 2)God is doing it to teach us 3)It is a “normal” part of life 4)the authority was only for the original Apostles : all of these are lies……..period!!

Just as in the Garden, satan still twists the truth and deceives us.

So speaking outloud and knowing my authority In Jesus, with the dunimus power of His Holy Spirit, I command the sickness/disease to leave and it must/has to/ain’t gotta  choice

Prayers do not need to be long drawn out, extravagant, the longer the prayer the less you are speaking from the authority of Jesus and unbelief will enter the picture. “Cancer Leave Now” is enough. Jesus prayers were always short “Pick up your mat and go”, Peter’s prayer was simply to say Silver and Gold I have none, but what I do have I give to you” Then I always thank the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. It really isn’t the words it’s His Presence, that heals.

Here’s a guideline but it’s a very loose guideline: Always listen for Holy Spirit’s Guidance He is the ultimate Healer, so listen to Him

1)  I acknowledge His Presence and Thank Him in advance

2)  Ask the level of pain or symptoms (if Holy Spirit hadn’t already given me a word of knowledge)

3)  Speak to the body part/disease tell it to be healed/disease to leave

4)  Have them test the body part and ask for the pain level,

5)  Praise and Worship Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit; giving them thanks!

I always encourage them to get medical confirmation, have them continue their medication unless a doctor takes them off, always tell them to interrupt if they feel electricity, heat, cold all great signs and use those signs to increase expectation. My actual goal is to not even have to pray for them or lay hands on them. Many times they are healed before prayer. Really the only thing we’re doing is releasing Holy Spirit to do what He is really good at doing. The less we’re involved the better. Healing is a Gift and Holy Spirit wants to heal, we’re just a vessel to give the gift away.  If you’re praying for yourself, command it to leave and expect Holy Spirit to heal. Look for the healing, not the symptom.

What is occurring when there is a healing is heaven impacting earth. We need to let Holy Spirit set the atmosphere around us His Peace, Joy and Righteousness Romans 14:17

for the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

So heaven on earth is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.  The person you are praying for is likely fearful, let Holy Spirit change the atmosphere, acknowledge His Presence. The person has a need, you have the answer inside of you!  So when praying for the sick, be confident! He does all the work. 

Side note on April 3rd and 10th, I'm appearing on the tv show "Healing Miracles" on the World Harvest television (WHT). The show airs at 12 am so set your DVR. I pray it will be a blessing to you!

Part 3 (Evils of this world)

I could write a book on this alone, so this is highly simplified.  Some of it, you’ll have to research on your own.  God created Adam and Eve, and gave dominion of the earth to them ( Genesis 1:28 ).  They sinned, God’s Gifts are without repentance,  He never took dominion back after the original sin.  Mankind’s spirit, was given over to the world of darkness.  The link to God (who is a Spirit) was severed.  However, having dominion over the earth was still retained by mankind. Therefore, God (by His own decree), has to work through mankind, to fulfill His Will.  The devil, has to work through mankind, as well.  I challenge the reader, to find one time in the Old Testament, that God did not work His Will through a person.  Moses had to stretch forth His staff to part the red sea.  Hit the rock three times, for water to come out.  Walk around Jericho everyday for a week and then yell, for it to fall.  Yes, the directive came from God to a person, but the person had to act.  Moses had to command the ten plagues, etc….

The devil  has no power apart from mankind, flesh and blood.  But because mankind’s spirit was turned over to the kingdom of darkness, most of mankind would simply do as the devil commanded.  They had no protection from the devils “fiery darts” of suggestion or possession.  The in-dwelling of Holy Spirit did not happen until Jesus’ resurrection.  In the Old Testament satan, Lucifer and the devil are only mentioned 16 times. In the New Testament 89 times, why? Because until the in-dwelling of the Holy Spirit (Being born of the spirit) man had no protection from evil.  The exception was those who the Spirit of God rested upon.  The Biblical hero’s, prophets etc…..Mankind has natural (God given) authority over the earth.  The devil uses that authority to steal, kill and destroy.  This is a point I wish to drive home,  he was the prince of the world, because he could so easily control our actions through our thoughts and for those not In Christ it is the same today.  This is why evil exists and will as long as one person has an unrenewed mind.  We give the devil way to much credit.  Ever wondered why when Jesus cast out legion, they wanted to go into the pigs?  Because flesh and blood pigs has more authority on earth than they do. 

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer. Matthew 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. James 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

All of the above verses speak of how what a man believes and speaks, controls the atmosphere around him. There are a thousand such verses in both the Old and New Testaments.

Now, the Father used those He chose, to accomplish His Will. To bring salvation to us! The prophets of Old prophesied for three main reasons, as proof of Himself, as warnings of what is to come, and to speak into existence the person of Jesus into man (who already existed as THE WORD). In Luke 1:20 Zacharias, was struck dumb, because of his unbelief.  Because his words, could have undone God’s plan. Why is Jesus the Son of God and Son of Man? Because only God could fulfill the task at hand. But because of natural (God given Authority) authority only a Son of Man had the authority to fulfill all the miracles, He was to do. Our Messiah had to know the perfect Will of God, and speak only His Perfect Will, for fulfillment of the Mosiac Law, but had to speak from mankind’s authority to have it done. Jesus won back for mankind; spiritual authority (In His Name).

Matthew 16:19

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.

Matthew 28:17-19Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

¹⁷ And when they saw him, they worshipped him: but some doubted. ¹⁸ And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. ¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

In Jesus we now have spiritual authority, we already had authority on earth, but no spiritual authority.  In other words, we had to be given the spiritual authority, by Jesus to loose what is already in Heaven, prosperity, health, healing, all spiritual blessings! And to bind (on earth) what is already bound in Heaven ie…..evil. 

I stated all that to be perfectly clear.  Evil existed before the New Covenant, because mankind’s spirit was dead and we had only earthly authority, without the spiritual authority.  Now, Jesus gave us everything we need to abolish evil off of this planet. The problem……….we don’t use it!! We are deceived into thinking that sickness, disease and death are normal. Research in the Old Covenant Abraham’s death, Jacob’s most of the men of God’s deaths.  Scripture states Gave up the ghost! Jesus gave up the ghost!  Death required our permission!  It still does with the exception of persecution for His Name’s Sake.  Sickness and disease under the New Covenant require our permission as well, but we accept these things by 1) Our speech 2)an un-renewed mind 3)by default 

Our Speech- James 1:7-9

Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)

^“7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:” Romans 8:6”For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”

Being double-minded is speaking with an  unrenewed mind, a mind not in harmony with God’s Will.  Example “I feel a cold coming”, yet asking for healing. Carnally minded, is to only rely on circumstances the physical world/our earthly authority, to believe that sickness is normal and we can do nothing about it. Sin is normal and we are slaves to the world.

To be spiritually minded is: Colossians 3:2 “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”

What is in heaven….God’s Presence/His Spiritual authority is there sickness in heaven……death….evil…..poverty? Then according to Matthew 16:19

“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind (declare to be improper and unlawful) on earth must be what is already bound in heaven; and whatever you loose (declare lawful) on earth must be what is already loosed in heaven.” We now have the spiritual authority to bind what isn’t in heaven and release what is in heaven.  We need to operate from heaven to earth! Thy Kingdom Come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven!  This is a mind renewed to the Will of God. Things happen when we speak according to what He is speaking.

We speak from what is in our heart: from what we have fed the inner man. To change our speech, we must change what we feed the inner man!!  Just as important we need to yield to Holy Spirit to change us.

Proverbs 4:23 “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”

Psalm 19:14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

What does the majority people feed their inner man? We feed our inner man through our senses what we hear, watch, speak and think.  I will stop at this point, the next topic we will talk about; is this and prayer for healing!